Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

Name: Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals
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ISBN: 9780262524797

ISBN-10: 0262524791

ISBN-13: 9780262524797

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Batty

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As urban planning moves from a centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized, bottom-up perspective, our conception of urban systems is changing. In Cities and Complexity, Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes. He argues that bottom-up processes -- in which the outcomes are always uncertain -- can combine with new forms of geometry associated with fractal patterns and chaotic dynamics to provide theories that are applicable to highly complex systems such as cities. Batty begins with models…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 7.99" wide x 8.98" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Understanding Cities



Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence



Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation



Laboratories for Growing Cities



Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution



Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions



Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings



The Dynamics of Small-Scale Spatial Events



Polynucleated Urban Landscapes



Modeling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic



Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development



The Fractal City


Conclusion: Understanding Models


References


Author Index


Subject Index